Demo 4.0.18

[newman25]

Been playing with the demo for a week and a half or so now and in the demo I found that when the timeout (30 minutes) expires and and the "Thanks for trying Freebox" box pops up and OK is clicked, the program doesn't really exit gracefully.  It seems to leave my desktop in a state where the icons are no longer visible, etc.  I do have access to the start button by pressing the Windows key or CTRL-ESC but I can not get the screen back to the original state without rebooting or running Freebox again and exiting the program by powering off.

Specs of my machine are as follows.....

Intel Atom motherboard/CPU
2GB RAM
Resolution 1024X768 32bit

Anyway, just wanted to let you know what I came across.  The software runs pretty nice but given the demo basically "craps out" on timeout I would hate for that to deter anyone from purchasing/donating.

Brian

BTW, I donated before I posted this 

[Barcrest]

Damn, nice pickup dude. I need to make sure it exits nicely for the next demo. Thanks for that...

[newman25]

One other thing you might consider in the "Demo" is to have the music stop playing once the timeout has exceeded.  As it is currently, it just pops up the modal box and continues to play on.  I had it in random play mode while I was testing the software while I was at work today and it seemed to play all day.  I just couldn't interact with the software to add songs, etc.

Also, and I am not sure you could do this in the current language you use (looks like VB?) but on the timeout popup notify the user that they can get a full version of the software by donating at <insert website address here>....

As I continue to use Freebox I think I will end up having tons of suggestions (that is just who I am..hahaha) and hopefully I don't end up annoying you...haha  I just think you have a pretty good piece of software....

Brian

[Barcrest]

Good ideas. I will look at implimenting both of them. Thanks.

[kizer]

Nice bug in your avatar too.